Parivaar and its Founder Vinayak Lohani have received numerous awards and recognitions for their service.
AWARDS & HONOURS
National Award for Child Welfare 2011 presented by the Hon. President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Sanskriti Award 2011, country’s premier award for young achievers in 2011 from the Former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Sri Sathya Sai Award’ presented by the Vice President of India, Dr Venkaiya Naidu, in November 2018.
Madhya Pradesh Gaurav Samman presented by the Hon. Governor and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in November 2022.
‘Swami Rama Humanitarian Award 2015’ presented by Hon. Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Nivedita Samman 2019 presented by West Bengal Governor Shri Jagdeep Dhankar.
CNN-IBN’s ‘Young Indian Leader of the Year Award’ for 2012.
IIM Calcutta’s ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ (one of the 9 recipients selected out of 8000 alumni of the institute in last 50 years) awarded in 2011 on occasion of Institute’s Golden Jubilee
IIT Kharagpur’s ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ awarded in 2014- Youngest recipient in the history of the award.
Swami Ranganathananda Memorial Humanitarian Award 2014 presented at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Calcutta.
Bhaorao Deoras Sewa Samman’ 2015 presented at Lucknow by Hon Governor, Uttar Pradesh.
Vivekananda Seva Samman 2016 presented by Hon. Governor, West Bengal.
Telegraph ‘Special Honour’ conferred by Telegraph Education Foundation Calcutta in 2014.
True Legends Award’ presented by ‘The Telegraph’ in April 2015.
Publications
Vinayak Lohani is the suthor of two books - 'Bhupendranath Datta - Patriot, Scholar and Revolutionary' and 'Almora's Couple Extraordinary - Boshi Sen and Gertrude Emerson'. He has published several articles and essays in publications like the Economic and Political Weekly, The Times of India, The Wire, Swarajyamag, LiveHistoryIndia, Outlook etc. He also writes fiction in genres of short stories and plays amd his English fiction has been published in the Sahitya Akademi journal. Some of his writings can be read at vinayaklohani.in
Roles with Government of India
Induction into Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) (2015 onwards), the apex consultational forum in Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India
Induction into the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India (2014-2017).
Inducted into the Management Committee and Governing Board of Childline India Foundation (2014 onwards), constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development which manages 24 hour child helpline services across nearly 500 districts in India.
